Original albumen Carte-de-Visite (CDV) portrait photograph of Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British statesman and author of Jewish ancestry who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Disraeli is shown seated in a characteristic Victorian studio portrait. A faint old pencil inscription beneath the photograph reads “Beaconsfield, ” the peerage title conferred upon Disraeli in 1876. Old inventory numbers in pencil appear on the reverse. No photographer or studio identification is present on the card. An original Victorian photographic portrait of one of Britain's most prominent 19th-century statesmen.
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